Done — Is a Lie. Your Definition of Done Is Broken in 2026.

You shipped the feature. The PR merged. The Figma file got handed off. The PM closed the ticket. Done, right? No. Not even close. Here is the uncomfortable truth that most teams are ignoring: if your work cannot be understood, queried, and built upon by an LLM, it is not done. It is abandoned. The old definition of done was built for humans only For decades, "done" meant something like this: the design is signed off, the code is deployed, the stakeholders are happy, and the Jira ticket moves to the right. Maybe someone writes a confluence page. Maybe they don't.